Bharat Ek Khoj (Hindi: भारत à¤à¤ à¤à¥à¤, Urdu: بھارت اÛÚ© Ú©Ú¾Ùج, English: Discovery of India) is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan.
The series dramatically unfolds and explores the five-thousand year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of the independence in 1947. It's cast include Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Tom Alter and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. Jawaharlal Nehru was portrayed by Roshan Seth, who had previously portrayed Nehru in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982). While Seth enacted the part of Nehru as the story-teller at key points in every episode, Om Puri provided the narration.
The drama was previously aired in DD Bharati and currently runs on Lok Sabha TV.
[edit]List of episodes

Bharat Mata Ki Jai
The Beginnings
The Arrival of the Vedic People (the Rigveda)
Caste Formation
Mahabharata Part 1
Mahabharata Part 2
Ramayana Part 1
Ramayana Part 2
Republics and Kingdoms
Negation and Acceptance of Life
Chanakya and Chandragupta Part 1
Chanakya and Chandragupta Part 2
Ashoka Part 1
Ashoka Part 2
The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 1
The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 2
The Classical Age
Kalidas and Shakuntala Part 1
Kalidas and Shakuntala Part 2
Harshavardhana
Bhakti
The Chola Empire Part 1
The Chola Empire Part 2
The Delhi Sultanate and Prithviraj Raso Part 1
The Delhi Sultanate and Prithviraj Raso Part 2
The Delhi Sultanate and Padmavat
Synthesis
The Vijayanagar Empire
Feudalism
The Fall of the Vijayanagar Empire
Rana Sanga, Ibrahim Lodi and Babur
Akbar Part 1 (Din-e-Ilahi)
Akbar Part 2
Golden Hind
Aurangzeb Part 1
Aurangzeb Part 2
Shivaji Part 1
Shivaji Part 2
Company Bahadur
Tipu Sultan
The Bengal Renaissance and Raja Ram Mohan Roy
1857 Part 1
1857 Part 2
Indigo Revolt
Mahatma Phule
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Vivekananda
Extremists and Moderates
And Gandhi Came Part 1
And Gandhi Came Part 2
Separatism
Do or Die
Epilogue

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